They set out to document a ‘perfect’ marriage. The results were complicated

A few years ago, film director Jacob Perlmutter was walking through London when he spotted one of his heroes. The US street photographer Joel Meyerowitz, known for his early adoption of colour film in the 1960s, was wandering in and out of shops. A few weeks later, the same thing happened again. Perlmutter decided to approach the artist, who this time was with his wife Maggie Barrett, an English artist and writer. “I spoke to Joel for a moment and then he introduced me to Maggie,”…